To launder the Binance hack, North Korean hackers launched six memecoins in three days, paid about $90 for each and were the only real traders. Sounds like most launches this year 😅
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North Korea’s launderers are creating their own meme coins to move funds stolen from Binance.
Between November 5 and 7, they launched at least six tokens on NEAR, dressed up with meme-coin logos such as a monkey in a pink bow and a duck in front of a US flag. Stolen NEAR went into a liquidity pool through one set of wallets and came out through another, so no transfer links the two directly. About 117,000 NEAR (around $430,000) passed through the six tokens before they were abandoned.
Almost nobody outside the laundering network bought them. They exist only to put a pool between the stolen funds and the next wallet.
The trail can still be followed on-chain. For compliance teams, funds arriving from a liquidity pool are not clean by default, especially when the token is only days old. @tomrobin explains how the technique works and the warning signs to screen for: hubs.la/Q04DL65d0
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